Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"There is nothing like the sympathy of a common cause to make the settlement of other differences easy."
From Sir Winston...
This landscape painting by the American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872) alludes to the ancient tale of Odysseus and the land of the Lotus...
(Alexander (by Placido Costanzi (Italian, 1702-1759)) with a catapult pointed at Darius III (Pompeii mosaic), all images Public Domain via Creative Commons)
Alexander the Great...
The Buddha (lived c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"All tremble before violence.
All fear death.
Having done the same yourself,
you should neither harm nor kill."
The Dhammapada (Verses...
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
"In you there is nothing that we hate, nothing we detest, nothing we abominate, nothing we condemn, except human error."
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